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mins The Fritz Walter Stadium erupts on the referee's final whistle which brings down the curtain on Rangers' European campaign. Rangers led 2-1 in the third match on April 13 – this time played at Hampden – with Moses scoring the second goal, but the experienced Vale of Leven proved to be too strong and they scored twice more to deny Rangers their first major honour.

Rangers captain James Tavernier spoke of the “huge honour” of being inducted into the Ibrox club’s Hall of Fame. The 2008–09 season saw Rangers recover from an early exit from the UEFA Champions League to FBK Kaunas of Lithuania. [79] The club secured its 52nd league championship on the last day of the season with a 3–0 victory at Dundee United. [80] Rangers also successfully defended the Scottish Cup, defeating Falkirk 1–0 in the final. [81] However, sectarian chanting by supporters has continued to incur criticism and sanctions upon the club as well as convictions against individuals identified. [229] [230] In 1999, the vice-chairman of The Rangers Football Club Ltd, Donald Findlay, resigned after being filmed singing sectarian songs during a supporters club event. [231] [232] [233] UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Body has punished Rangers for incidents during European ties, most notably Villarreal in 2006, [234] Osasuna in 2007, [235] PSV Eindhoven in 2011, [236] [237] and at Ibrox in 2019. [238] In February 2015, following sectarian singing from Rangers fans at a match at Raith Rovers, the SPFL came in for criticism for their failure or inability to deal with the issue. [239] However, there have been cases of the police and courts taking action, with Rangers fans having been charged, convicted and jailed for sectarian behaviour. [240]The trio are the first inductions into the Hall of Fame since 2014, and speaking to Rangers TV , external, Tavernier, who scored a double in Rangers 3-0 win at Livingston on Saturday, said, “It is an absolute huge honour. It’s still not really sunk in. Rangers are one of the best supported clubs in Europe, the figure for the 2017–18 season being in the 20 largest home league attendances in Europe. [193] A study of stadium attendance figures from 2013 to 2018 by the CIES Football Observatory ranked Rangers at 18th in the world during that period, with Rangers' accounting for 27.4% of total Scottish attendance, placing them 8th overall for national attendance share. [194]

Bob Ferrier; Robert McElroy (1998). Glasgow Rangers: Player by Player. The Crowood Press. ISBN 0-600-59495-5. Scot Symon continued Struth's success, winning six league championships, five Scottish Cups and four League Cups, becoming the second manager to win the domestic treble in 1963–64 season, the era of 'Slim' Jim Baxter, one of the club's greatest players. [31] [32] Rangers also lost by their biggest Old Firm margin of 7–1. [28] The Ibrox disaster occurred on 2 January 1971 when large-scale crushing on a stairway exit at the culmination of an Old Firm game claimed 66 lives. An enquiry concluded that the crush was likely to have happened ten minutes after the final whistle and to have been triggered by someone falling on the stairs. [35] A benefit match to raise funds for the victims' families took place after the disaster, a joint Rangers and Celtic team playing a Scotland XI at Hampden, watched by 81,405 fans. [36]Best attendances of Brazilian Championship of 4th Level" (in Portuguese). RSSSF Brasil. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012 . Retrieved 22 August 2012. 1 Santa Cruz (PE) 0×0 Treze (PB), 59.966, 16/10/2011, Estádio do Arruda Campbell, Andy (25 August 2011). "Rangers 1 – 1 NK Maribor (agg 2 – 3)". BBC Sport. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012. Rangers exited the Europa League as Maribor claimed an aggregate victory to progress to the group stages.

Football / Scottish Cup: Golac's day of glory". The Independent. 21 May 1994 . Retrieved 10 November 2017. In 1989, Rangers signed Mo Johnston, "their first major Roman Catholic signing". [220] Johnston was the first high-profile Catholic to sign for the club since the World War I era, though other Catholics had signed for Rangers before. [216] [221] Since Johnston's signing, an influx of overseas footballers has contributed to Catholic players becoming commonplace at Rangers. [222] In 1999, Lorenzo Amoruso became the first Catholic captain of the club. [223]On 10 January 2007, former boss Walter Smith resigned from his post as Scotland manager to return to the Ibrox helm, with Ally McCoist as assistant manager. [73] The 2008 UEFA Cup final in Manchester, which Rangers contested When Rangers played French sides in 1996–97 and 1997–98, they wore the logo of Center Parcs instead of McEwan's Lager, due to a French ban on alcohol advertising. [182] Later matches in France (when the club was sponsored by Carling) saw the club play with no shirt sponsor, in 2006 [183] and 2007. [184] Rangers' 10-point deduction confirmed by SPL". BBC Sport. 14 February 2012. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Rangers have been deducted 10 points after entering administration.